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English

Etymology
Originally from term|Mongol + term|-ian, a translation of the German term|mongalisch (1706). Subsequently, from the name of the country of term|Mongolia + term|-an.

Adjective
en-adj

1. Of or relating to Mongolia or its peoples, languages, or cultures = Mongol.

#* 1706 - Evert Y. Ides: Three years travels from Moscow over-land to China...

#*: He had a Sister, which according to the Mongalian<!--Sic: This spelling is found in the quotation--> custom lived in the devoted spiritual state.
#* 1878 - Encyclopedia Britannica, ninth edition, volume XVI
#*: The Mongolian characters...are written perpendicularly from above downward.
#* 1985 - Robert Whelan: Robert Capa: A Biography
#*: He usually had a heavy growth of dark stubble that made him look...rather like a Mongolian bandit.

1. Anthropology. Resembling or having some of the characteristic physical features of the Mongoloid racial type = Mongoloid.

#* 1828 - John Stark: Elements of natural history
#*: The Mongolian variety inhabits eastern Asia, Finland, and Lapland in Europe, and includes the Esquimaux of North America.
#* 1834 - Penny cyclopædia of the Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge, volume II
#*: The white (or Caucasian), the yellow (or Mongolian), and the black (or Ethiopian)
#* 1990 - Louis de Berni&egrave;res: ''The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts
#*: It was not so much their Mongolian features that impressed everyone...

1. context|now|_|rare|offensive Designating or affected with Down syndrome = Mongol.

#: Spelling: Also mongolian.
#* 1866 - John Langdon Haydon Down in Clinical lectures and reports by the medical and surgical staff of the London Hospital, volume II
#*: The Mongolian type of idiocy occurs in more than ten per cent. of the cases which are presented to me.
#* 1965 - H. Eldon Sutton: An introduction to human genetics
#*: The condition known as trisomy 21 syndrome or mongolian idiocy (sometimes referred to as Down's syndrome) had long been an enigma.

Derived terms
Mongolian gerbil
Mongolian lamb
Mongolian pheasant
Mongolian spot

Translations

Spanish: t+|es|mongol
Swedish: mongol-, mongolisk
Tagalog: Monggolyan
Turkish: Mo�ol
Vietnamese: Mông C�
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Noun
en-noun

1. A native or inhabitant of Mongolia = Mongol.

#* 1757 - John Dyer: The fleece, a poem (1807)
#*: The Cossac there, The Calmuc, and Mungalian, round the bales In crowds resort.
#* 1763 - John Bell: A journey from St. Petersburg to Pekin
#*: This day we saw some scattered tents of Mongalians, with their flocks.
#* 1854 - Robert G. Latham in Orr's Circle of the sciences: Organic nature
#*: The Mongolians are the most nomadic of populations.
#* 1990 - New Scientist, September 1
#*: Mongolians now regard animal husbandry as a low-status occupation.

1. A group of Altaic languages from Mongolia, specifically Khalkha, the official language of Mongolia.

#* 1926 - Neville J. Whymant: A Mongolian Grammar
#*: The Khalka...Mongolian possesses seven vowels and twenty consonants.
#* 1987 - David Crystal: The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language
#*: The Altaic family...comprises about 40 languages, classified into three groups: Turkic, Mongolian, and Manchu-Tungus.
#* 1990 - Orientations, April
#*: These inscriptions are in Mongolian and thus widen the appliqu&eacute;'s international connections.

1. A person of Mongoloid physical type; a Mongoloid.

#* 1823 - North American Revolution, July
#*: A particular individual which the latter considered a Mongolian and the former assures us is an Ethiopian.
#* 1938 - Franz Boas, et al.: General Anthropology
#*: Extreme forms like the Australians, Negroes, Mongolians, and Europeans may be described as races because each has certain characteristics which set them off from other groups, and which are strictly hereditary.
#* 1988 - Current Anthropology, volume 29
#*: The thesis of this work was that native Americans were one race distinct from Eskimos and Mongolians.

See also
w:Mongol|Wikipedia article on Mongolians (Mongols)
w:Mongolian language|Wikipedia article on the Mongolian language

Spanish: t+|es|mongol
Swedish: mongol c, mongoliska f
Tagalog: Monggolyan
Turkish: Mo�ol
Vietnamese: ngư�i Mông C�, dân Mông C�
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trans-top|group of languages from Mongolia
Afrikaans: Mongools
Belarusian: мангол��ка� (mangól�skaja)
Chinese: ��语 (m�ngg�y�)
Danish: mongolsk
Dutch: Mongools
Estonian: mongoli, mongoli keeled
Filipino: Mongolian, Monggolyan
Finnish: t-|fi|mongolia
German: Mongolisch
Greek: �ογγολικά n|p
Hebrew: ��נ����ת (mongolit) f
Irish: t|ga|Mongóilis|f|xs=Irish
Italian: t-|it|mongolico|m, t-|it|mongolica|f
Japanese: ����� (mongoru-go), ��� (m�ko-go)
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Korean: 몽골� (monggol-eo)
Malay: bahasa Mongolia
Norwegian: mongolsk
Portuguese: t+|pt|mongol|m
Romanian: t-|ro|mongola|f
Spanish: t+|es|mongol|m
Swahili: t-|sw|kimongolia|xs=Swahili
Swedish: mongoliska c
Tagalog: Monggolyan
Thai: THchar|ภาษามอ����ลีย (paas�a monggohlia)
Turkish: Mo�olca
Ukrainian: монгол���кий (mongól�skyj)
Vietnamese: tiếng Mông C�
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trans-top|person of Mongoloid physical type
Czech: t-|cs|mongoloid|m
Danish: t-|da|mongol
Estonian: mongoliid
Filipino: Mongolian, Monggolyan
Finnish: mongolialainen
French: t+|fr|mongol|m, t+|fr|mongol|f
Greek: �ογγολικ�� m, �ογγολική f
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Italian: t-|it|mongolico|m, t-|it|mongolica|f
Japanese: t-|ja|������|trmongoroido|scJpan
Norwegian mongol
Novial: mongole
Portuguese: t+|pt|mongol|m
Romanian: mongoloid m, mongoloida f mongoloizi m|p, mongoloide f|p
Russian: t-|ru|монгол|m|trmongól|scCyrl
Spanish: t+|es|mongol
Swedish: t+|sv|mongol|c
Tagalog: Monggolyan
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ttbc|Afrikaans: Mongools
ttbc|Azeri: монгол
ttbc|Basque: mongoliera
ttbc|Bulgarian: монголе� m, монголка f, монгол�ки
ttbc|Hungarian: mongol
ttbc|Indonesian: Mongolia
ttbc|Lithuanian: Mongoliškai
ttbc|Malay: Mongol
ttbc|Maltese: Mongoljan
ttbc|Moksha: монголан� (mongolan�)
ttbc|Mongolian: монгол (mongol)
ttbc|Persian: FAchar|�غ��� (mo�oli)
ttbc|Walloon: Mongol
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Related terms
Mongol
Mongolia
Mongoloid

External links
Mongolian-English Dictionary
Mongolian language resources
Classical Mongolian Dictionary
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Category:Languages

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ku:Mongolian
lt:Mongolian
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nl:Mongolian
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